AP Language Rhetorical Device Examples Flashcards
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| 8459771502 | Allusion | "Chocolate was her Achilles' heel" | 0 | |
| 8459783375 | Analogy | "That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet" (Romeo & Juliet) | 1 | |
| 8459796609 | Anaphora | "I want my money right now, right here, all right?" | 2 | |
| 8459808856 | Anecdote | "My dear you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you'll still be ugly." (Winston Churchill) | 3 | |
| 8459827268 | Aphorism | "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." (Thomas Betram) | 4 | |
| 8459837563 | Asyndeton | "Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth." (Abraham Lincoln) | 5 | |
| 8459856679 | Climax | "and from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with a good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you, all of you on Earth." | 6 | |
| 8459874407 | Absolutes | "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." (Martin Luther King Jr.) | 7 | |
| 8459896378 | Colloquialism | y'all | 8 | |
| 8459900645 | Concession | "An individual has their own right to freedom, but medical evidence proves that second hand smoking is harmful." | 9 | |
| 8459951197 | Double Bind | Child forced to choose between eating spinach or broccoli. | 10 | |
| 8459963203 | Euphemism | Collateral damage OR civilians murdered | 11 | |
| 8459973166 | Forced teaming | "We the People" | 12 | |
| 8459977115 | Hyperbole | It is going to take a zillion years to get through medical school. | 13 | |
| 8459996075 | Implied Metaphor | Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled. | 14 | |
| 8460008873 | Juxtaposition | "Nightmares can be juxtaposed with daydreams" | 15 | |
| 8460015063 | Litotes | "Thank you, you won't regret it." | 16 | |
| 8460025256 | Parallelism | "of the people, by the people, for the people." | 17 | |
| 8460035678 | Personification | Shakespeare giving moon human ability to feel in A Midsummer Night's Dream. | 18 | |
| 8460052700 | Polysyndeton | "Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawn." | 19 | |
| 8460070103 | Pun | "Did you hear about the guy whose left side was cut off? He's all right now." | 20 | |
| 8462821269 | Rhetorical Question | "If all your fiends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?" | 21 | |
| 8462832617 | Logos | 1 in 10 high school students are sleep deprived. | 22 | |
| 8462842657 | Pathos | That sad dog commercial | 23 | |
| 8462845957 | Rule of 3 | Stop, drop, and roll | 24 | |
| 8462855933 | Satire | "What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and isn't no trouble to do wrong and the wages is just the same?" (Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn) | 25 | |
| 8462879733 | Tone | Martin Luther King Jr. uses aggressive attitude to show how people feel isolated. | 26 |